Lazy bugger

Been a bit slack posting so here is a catch up...

10 September 2008

My own riding has been pretty slow. Fortunately the personal trainers I challenged for the Festival of Cycling are having their own issues so may be a case of who goes the least slow. Will hit the windtrainer over the next 12 weeks as this is where I see real gains even if I am not doing a high volume of training.Good news on the coaching front. Canterbury Sport Academy are paying the course fees for the Bike NZ level 2 course. Also for me to attend a coaching course in Christchurch next week. The people attending is a real whose who of NZ coaching including John Wright (Cricket) and Mark Hammet (Rugby).

Riders been doing the bizzo...

Tom Hubbard won 2 stages in SI Schools Tour in the U20 grade and took the Sprint Ace and finished 2nd Overall. Brooke Williams also finished 2nd overall in U15 Girls taking the Sprint Ace and 1 stage win. Will Bowman was third overall in U17 boys and 2nd in Sprint Ace. Simon Acker keeps gaining experience with each race.

Tom Hubbard keeps building the legend with a solid attacking win in the Cat 2-3 Hummingbird Classic. A race he should win he made sure by going from the gun and keeping the break going even when the bunch nearly reeled them in.

Allen Vugrincic had an excellent US Masters Championships as part of his build up to US Nationals taking Silver in Kilo and Sprint in the 35-39 age Group. Ted Schmid took Silver in the Team Sprint where Allen took the Bronze. Ted takes a break now while Allen finally gets some speed work. Like Taylor Olson what will he do when we unleash him at Nationals.

Justin Leov held on to his top ten World Ranking in Downhill after the Canberra World Cup. He has one more World Cup in Austria before we can look back on a successful year and plan to move higher up the World Rankings in 2009!

Train hard, stay focused, aim high, race hard, enjoy life!!!

Hamish

18 August 2008

It's a coaching update today as I haven't done a lot of riding. With my goal event pushed back to December. Also picked up a cold with the very changeable weather in Christchurch. But with the Festival of Cycling in mind will need to get in some quality hill rides building up to a 2-2.5 hour event on an undulating course. Good base for the Canterbury and National pursuit events.

Good news is that Bike NZ has invited me to do their new level 2 course. Cycling NZ sent me to Australia in 1997 to do their level 2 but due to a poor coaching administration back then I was never able to gain the certificate. Hope everyone is working hard and setting big goals for their upcoming events. Many laughed in 2005 when Hayden Roulston withdrew from the powerful Discovery Pro Cycling team to focus on track and winning a medal at Beijing. Nice to see such a commitment and risk pay off. What have you committed to in cycling and what are you prepared to risk to achieve it?

I have logged back on to Skype. It's a good communication tool. Feel free to say hi when I am online.

hamish.ferguson

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4 August 2008

Been a busy week. Lots on and lots of hard decisions to make. With crashes and other setbacks know I will not be ready to race at my best at Masters Worlds. Also keen to do the Bike NZ Level 2 coaching course a week after Nationals. Not so much to gain new information (certainly not a weakness of mine) but to form some new coaching connections in NZ especially as it appears that candidates for the course are coming from XC, DH, BMX as well as track and road.

Allen Vugrincic won the California State Masters Kilo Title. Many of my local riders are getting back into racing after a winter break. Thanks for the feedback on where I should invest my wee coaching scholarship. Looks like the L2 course will be one area. Also need to work on a way to show the long term training and how each block builds towards the goal event.I'm still training and have refocused on the Festival of Cycling Event in December before the Mid South Criterium and Track Carnivals and then the Canterbury and New Zealand Track Cycling Champs.

Hamish